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April 15th 2009

MMOGCART.COM: MAN MUST ASK FOR REFUND Plus He Must Boycott MMOGCart (3/4)

Well this review sure died an early death before that major patch was released. I couldn’t blame Vince for asking for a refund after that jaw-dropping incident with the MMOGCart delivery toon.

"EGF, have you ever accepted a face-to-face trade with a seller that required you to give something in exchange?" he asked.

"Nope, never. They’d just hand me the gold and then leave the game."

"So what the (bleep) was that all about?" he snapped.

Guy is totally P.O.’d. He complained to a live help rep who said they’ll get back to him after they’ve "investigated the unfortunate incident".

Several hours of more waiting and nothing, nada, zip. With the patch looming, Vince made an executive decision to cancel the order and get his money back. That toon demanding a "weapon or trinket" in return was the icing on a badly-baked cake.

I smell a scam burning in someone’s kitchen.

Another gold seller bites the dust and joins the WoW Gold Facts blacklist.

This review is over.

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April 15th 2009

MMOGCART.COM: MAN MUST WAIT FOR GOLD Plus He Can Raid Some Other Time (2/4)

Vince is not a happy man. And it’s not because of today’s big-a$$ realm downtime (anyone else P.O.’d by that one?)

He placed the order at MMOGCart’s website three days ago, was told in an email that they would call him within half an hour to verify his order.

MMOGCart Checkout

MMOGCart cart

MMOGCart Order No

MMOGCart Paypal

The call came in at 1:30 AM, several hours after he paid for the gold.

Now you know my pain, Vince.

MMOGCart verifications rep asked him a bunch of questions like "what level is your character?", "how much gold did you order?", "what is your server?", "what is your faction?" and "what is the address in your PayPal account?"

So after bugging him at that ungodly hour, they told him to go online and wait for their delivery toon. Vince flipped, of course, and reminded them using his most colorful vocabulary that it was one-bleeping-thirty-in-the-bleeping-morning-in-the-United-bleeping-States-of-America.

The Chinese rep then told him, "Can you wait for your gold?"

"Can you let me sleep first?"

"We’ll call you again when you are awake in the morning."

Well, thank God for small mercies.

Unfortunately he didn’t hear from MMOGCart in the morning. Neither in the afternoon. That evening we had a scheduled raid, to be led by Cletus (God have mercy on us, right?). Vince is always the first guy online (the only guy I know who can raid and eat dinner and talk to his girlfriend on the phone all at the same time, AND without breaking his concentration on the raid).

AND THEN…

rrring…..

MMOGCart calls him just when our little raid party is slowly gathering!

Pissed off but still polite, Vince told the Chinese dude that we’re raiding in a few and could he please arrange the face-to-face trade after three hours?

"Please go to Orgrimmar now and meet our guy in three minutes." came the indifferent reply.

"I am in Zul-(bleeping)-Drak in Northrend for a (bleeping) raid, there’s no way I can meet your (bleeping) guy in Org in three (bleeping) minutes!!!" He yelled.

"You can raid some other time, the gold is ready."

(My reaction: LOL!!!)

Vince hung up on him, but not before shouting ‘THREE HOURS, THAT’S ALL I NEED!!"

Three hours after our raid (let’s have a moment of silence for my little raid group), Vince contacted MMOGCart’s Live Help to let them know he’s on his way to Org. Rep told him, great, see you in the bank.

Vince waited nervously in the bank and got a whisper. "Hi"

"Hey", he whispered back.

"I’m here." MMOGCart’s delivery toon said.

"Great! Gold please."

"Trade a weapon."

"WTF?"

"Weapon or trinket." The MMOGCart toon demanded.

"No! Can’t trade soulbound items. Give me the gold!" Vince was livid at this point.

"You have one not soulbound." My, my, someone’s been checking out the damn armory!

"I said no!"

"Bye." Then MMOGCart’s toon logged off.

Oh.

My.

God.

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April 14th 2009

MMOGCART.COM: Man Must Order Gold, Of Course Plus But I Don’t “All Raid Time”! (1/4)

New review courtesty of my buddy Vince, who gets spammed a lot by one MMOGCart.com, which beats the hell out of him since he’s never bought WoW gold from them.

"Maybe you bought from one of their sister sites?" I offered helpfully.

"Whatever, dude. Just check them out. I’ll even pay for this review."

Woohoo! I love doing a review on someone else’s dime!

So this is what happened two days ago. While Vince placed an order at MMOGCart, I checked out their site independently:

MMOGCart Banner

Oh okay, now I know that MMOGCart stands for: M an M ust O rder G old! C ause A ll R aid T ime! Brilliant! Quick, someone give the talented genius behind this acronym forty lashes and a crucifixion ’cause I can’t stop cringing.

So they’ve got all these other types of currency available but all I’m interested in is their WoW gold and how fast they deliver. 24 hours is acceptable is that’s what they promise. If I hear another 5-minute claim I will laugh. Really.

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Okay, now that little box that says Password Rules just made me flip. It’s eerily similar to……..

Blizzard Password Rules

TA-DAH!!!!

Will you look at that!!! MMOGCart ripped the password rules thingie straight out of Blizzard’s WoW account management page. The nerve! Can’t they even draft their own password rules? What is wrong with these people??? Ripping off from Blizz’s site is an all-time low!

Boo!

Buy WoW Gold

The copy above is so spammy. WoW gold this and WoW gold that. Anything for SEO value, never mind if it all sounds retardedly repetitive.

"Just place your order to buy wow gold here then your desired wow gold will be in your mail box in wow game." - No face-to-face trade?

"I’m fine with the mailbox delivery," Vince said. "I don’t want to wait in the game too long for some level 1 to come up to my level 75 DK. Besides, it might look obvious to every one in Org that there’s a trade taking place."

I said, "But if you go about it really quick.."

"Whatever, dude, Carl had a bad experience with the last one. Idiot level 1 gold toon waved and jumped around to catch his attention. I mean, he was too f*cking obvious, like here, here, get your gold from me!"

Well that’s not good. Must find out where Carl ordered his gold.

Anyway, moving on…

Here’s the boring About Us/Our Business Page:

MMOGCart OurBiz

Founded by a group of professional gamers? From what country? Must find out as well.

"What’s there to find out? It’s obvious they’re from China!" Vince laughed.

"Right. Of course, they’re from China. How silly of me. Still, contacting Live Help is WoW Gold Facts tradition," I explained.  "Besides, I have other questions to ask."

MMOGCart presales

MMOGCart Presales2

I couldn’t help teasing her a little, just to test her patience. But wouldn’t you agree that Razorfen Kraul or Southern Elwynn Forest would make a more exciting venue for face-to-face deliveries? You get gold, thrills, spills and chills all in one package.

MMOGCart Presales3

"You should see me protect my group from getting wiped." - You should see me use the hearthstone when the going gets tough.

Ah well, not even dynamite will move her so I guess Vince will just have to fly to Org.

"You okay with face-to-face delivery, dude?’ I said.

"Er, I guess so." He said. "Just as long as they’re discreet and I don’t have to wait too long."

Unfortunately, neither condition was met, but that’s for another post. It’s already 2:30 in the morning and I should really get some sleep.

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April 13th 2009

“GOLD TRADING EXPOSED: THE DEVELOPERS” - Fourth and Last Installment Out

Hey, kiddies, Nick Ryan’s fourth and last installment of his Gold Trading Exposed series is out. Check it out at this Eurogamer page .  This time, the spotlight is on the publishers - all anti-RMT, surprise, surprise. Yours truly isn’t mentioned in the article but hey, it’s still worth a read. LOL.

About those accounts that get stolen…in the first place, one shouldn’t even provide their WoW account username and password to gold sellers. Giving RMT sites access to youraccount is akin to signing your own (and your toons’) death warrant. That’s also akin to giving your ATM PIN and CARD to random strangers. I can’t stress enough that the safest way to receive your gold is by mail or face-to-face trade. I’d stay away from gold sellers that invite you to try their third delivery option, which is to give them your account log-in details.  Any site that offers this dangerous (and dubious) method spells S-C-A-M-M-E-R in my books.

So how long do I think this gold war will last? Hey, as long as MMORPG players like me have a need for currency, there’s no stopping the industry from growing. Wish publishers and gold sellers will someday work together towards a compromise, but that’s like wishing for Bill O’Reilly and Keith Olbermann to bury the hatchet over tea and blueberry scones.

New review coming up tomorrow. Thanks to my friend Vince for helping me out by placing an order and providing screenshots. Last update I got from him: it’s been more than 24 hours since he kissed his money goodbye. Not a good sign. Perhaps post-sales support will redeem our latest victim, er, subject?

Lastly, check out my MySpace blog tribute to my neighbor Mr. G. who passed away a few days ago. I miss you, old dude.

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April 10th 2009

INTERLUDE POST: REGARDING POSTING COMMENTS

Just a quick interlude post to address your questions about the comments section of WoW Gold Facts.

If it’s someone’s first time to post a comment, the comment will not show right away. Comment moderation is switched on. Please do not repeatedly click submit because:

1. your comment will show up in duplicates

2. if your comment appears in duplicates, Wordpress will tag it as spam. And I have a habit of not inspecting the stuff that lands under spam and just deleting them right away.

Also, there are times when Wordpress mistakenly flags your comment as spam, especially when:

1. there are hyperlinks

2. the comment itself is quite long and contains copy-and-paste text of a chat transcript (which I appreciate and encourage you to submit, and I’ll think of a way to get Wordpress not to flag this!)

Please keep the (legit) comments coming though. I love hearing from my readers.

New review coming next week!

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April 8th 2009

PAGING AVRIL LAVIGNE: GO SK8 ON WOWMINE’S FACE

Someone please get in touch with Avril Lavigne’s agent or lawyer (or both) to let them know that Avril is WoWMine’s latest (or should I write l8est) face for their spam newsletter.

Avril MMOGap

Yeah I know it says MMOGap (I can read, you know) but look at the business address at the bottom. Clearly one of Wowmine’s many spawns.

How they can continue to use celebrity mugs without their permission is beyond me.

Shameless.

And as always, there’s the $5 per 1000g hook.Like the proverbial turd in the toilet bowl, that “promo” just won’t go away!

Eh, what do you expect from a third-world scammer?

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April 6th 2009

PICKING ON MY BIATCH: It’s Raining Spam, HELL-elujah

It was a 10-man raid gone bad.

And when a raid goes bad, we take it to heart.

Just to show you how Cletus, Remus and I take our raids very seriously, we have our desktops AND our laptops with the webcams AND our phone lines open for communication, so we can see each other’s reactions as we curse AND kvetch about the stupidity and arrogance of the seven idiots we were charitable enough to include in our raid.

It just wasn’t our night. We picked the wrong seven for Zul’Aman. Coordination, timing and common sense were sorely missing. I was so pissed I was the first to log out. To hell with the loot. I’ll just have to find better loot elsewhere.

Then the phone rang and it was Cletus.

"Wanna pick on your bitch again? Seems you need an outlet after that epic wipe."

"Lemme guess: you got spammed again by the Sir Spam-a-Lot of gold sellers," I said. "And their opt-out still doesn’t work."

"Oh yes!"

"Bring it on."

Yeah, he brung it all right

WoWMine Scam April

"Shipping out 5,000,000 golds weekly." - Funny how that much gold has yet to find their way to paying customers. Have you see the complaints at Complaints Board? Not a very nice read.

"April sale from WoW gold trade world leader $5/1000G" - Bullsh*t. We all know it’s bullsh*t. When  the hell are you going to drop this pitch and realize people aren’t stupid? Are you guys on crack?

"Buy 3000G now And 1000G of your order Will need to be paid only at $5" - Bad, bad English and false, false promo.Trust me, I checked it out. Discount is misleading. Don’t believe me? Do a mock order and do the math.

"For the Alliance!" - For the Horde, jackass. Horde rulz.

"Coupon code: WEEMA" - Whatever.

And more crappy English:

"WoWMine Gold has never been offered as a big discount a snow! Time limited scare buying will be supplying only for one week." - WTF is ‘time limited scare buying’??

"You may not any more hesitate right now!" - Any half-sentient being would balk and hesitate at your creepy marketing tactics, ass clown.

Ad of course, we have the deathless scammy address 501 Silverside Road, an address whored to other unscrupulous entities hiding from the Feds.

Ah, I feel better. Thanks, Cletus, for providing the punching bag. Now back to planning a future raid. And this time, no idiots allowed.

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April 6th 2009

SPAMMY HOG FEED: GO BUY THE FARM, JACKASS (Read: That Means Please Die)

I’m only posting this sh*t ’cause I still can’t sleep (bleeping insomnia!) and I need to pick on something. Now to the owners of the scammy website responsible for sending me this spammy news letter, please drill this into your thick scammy skull: there IS such a  thing as bad publicity and I’m going to rain all my venomous literary might on you to let the whole world know what scumbags you are. The gloves are off, losers.

To my WoW Gold Facts readers, if you received this barrel of dung, please mark it as spam:

WoWgoldhog spam

DO NOT BUY FROM THIS FRAUDULENT PIECE OF HOG DROPPING. They ripped off another WoW gold seller from top to bottom (copy, concept and all, which must be an act of desperation since they can’t write for sh*t in decent English) and they are owned by Wowmine , whom we all know to be the Dark Lord of False Claims. Unless you are a masochist, stay away from them at all costs. And just to reiterate for the nth time, that business address 501 Silverside Road at the bottom of the newsletter is NOT a real address, but an address-for-rent that is shared by other shady entities.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you repeatedly.

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April 3rd 2009

SPAM CANNED AND DISTRIBUTED BY CHINA: Reading the Label and Chatting with the Undead

Here are three spam newsletters from ‘em Chinese folks.

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to guess which ones don’t have a budget for a newsletter designer or a decent English-speaking copywriter.  :)

Lorland.com

Lorland. Never heard of these people. They must be a sister site of one of the Chinese gold sellers I reviewed. I hate it when my email add gets bounced from one minion to another!

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"WE HAVE NOBLES DECK, CHOOPER, HOG, ACCOUNT, MATERIALS.POWERLEVELING…" - Chooper??? Hog??? What????

Goldsoon VIP

So what’s this? Some invite to a VIP program? Special privileges include:

1)  VIP Price

2)  VIP Delivery Speed

3) VIP Customer Service

"SOON SAFE SAVING SWEET" - WTF???

‘YOUR ARE THE VIP IN GOLDSOON. ARE YOU THE VIP IN YOUR WOW WORLD?" - You bet your dumpling ass I’m VIP in the WoW world! Hell, even Arthas bowed before me! (in my dreams)

"LET’S HAND IN HAND TO BE WOW VIP" - Cripes your English sucks. And no, I don’t want to be "hand in hand" with you. Too gay.

"YOU NEED TO PREPARE FOR THE NEW RAID" - ULDUAR!" - First, I need to look for a few good players with IQ levels above double digits and the decency to listen to AND follow my instructions. Earlier, I did Violet Hold with a couple of random dudes I met in the game who asked for my help. Turned out to be a couple of kids borrowing their older brothers’ toons and didn’t know doodly squat how to use them. Needless to say, they got me killed. That’s the last time I’m helping anyone!

Anyway, curiosity about their VIP program gets the better of me. I contact Goldsoon’s live help as that epic chick Jaina Proudmoore (whom Cletus crudely described as “the pixel babe worth attacking for a good bang”) . As expected, Goldsoon’s customer support was epically retarded. Read the chat below:

Jaina-1

Jaina-2

Jaina-3

Jaina-4

Jaina-5

All the more reason to stay away from this loser, kiddies. What more proof do you need?

Sh*t, it’s 3:00 AM. Gotta scoot.

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April 1st 2009

VCPIT.COM THE EPILOGUE: I’ll Say It Again, You’re The Pits (4/4)

VCPit.com, you are the pits because:

1. Your customer service sucks. Zero empathy. Zero cheer. Zero comprehension.

2. Your verifications department has no concept of time differences and doesn’t think twice about waking people up at three in the morning

3. You have the gall to tell a customer to go online for the face-to-face trade….even when all realms are down for maintenance . That wasn’t a very nice April Fools stunt, BTW.

4. You claim to deliver in 5 minutes. Not the most original bullsh*t I’ve heard.

5. You lied about having stock, which you didn’t have in the first place. Not very original too. But it’s getting old and it’s not going to retain your customers and win a few more. People talk, you know. And there are gold-buying gamers who actually read WoW Gold Facts !

6. As of this writing, you still haven’t refunded Remus’ money. Quit giving him the runaround! We don’t want your pathetic 5% bonus. We don’t want to hear another "please log in to your character to get the gold". (My friend Rachel is close to whacking my family jewels) Do you know what it’s like to be dunned by Remus? Not a very pleasant experience! If you don’t give him back his money and he starts dunning me, I will unleash hell.

However, I must thank you for the laughs I derived from your site’s ridiculous copy. My buddies and I had a good few, and we must thank you for the "eye-popping candy" on the home page. At least now we know there’s a website called boobpedia.com. That should keep us very busy.

Till the next review.

Au revoir. I’m outta here.

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April 1st 2009

VCPIT.COM: TOTALLY THE PITS Plus Remus and Rachel are Mad (3/4)

Email from Remus:

EGF,

A Chinese man from VCPit.com called me at 2:56 in the morning. I yelled at him for waking me up. He said he didn’t know I was asleep. I asked if he knew the concept of time zones and that I was in the US. He said he knew but he wanted to verify my order. He asked me what level the order character was. Unfortunately, I didn’t know what level Rachel’s character was so I said I was too sleepy to remember, and could he call later? He said they can’t deliver the f*cking gold if I myself didn’t know my own toon’s level. I told him that the gold was actually for a friend. Then he said why don’t you know the level of your friend’s character? I told him to f*ck off and chew on his own meatballs.

Remus

My reply:

Remus,

I’m so sorry to hear that. When VCPit calls again, tell them Rachel’s toon is Level XX.

EGF

P.S. Let me know what else they wanna know and if they call you again at an ungodly hour.

Email from Remus:

EGF,

They called me at lunchtime. They wanted to know what level again. I told him "Level f*cking XX". The Chinese dude said thanks, please log in now. I texted Rachel to get online and get her gold.

Remus

P.S. You owe me $XX.00

My reply:

Remus,

I.O.U. $XX.00. I will pay you back tomorrow. Do you want it in ones and fives? Or would you be willing to accept a piggy bank of quarters?

EGF

Text message to Rachel:

Rach, did you get the gold?

Rachel’s reply:

BLIZZ STILL DOING REALM MAINTENANCE. Why did gold company say to go online??

@#$%?????!!!!!

Text message to Remus:

Please follow up on order. TY.

Remus’ reply:

VCPit says sorry. They’re still farming gold. Ask for a refund?

Text message to Remus:

No. Want Rach to have the gold. It’s a birthday present.

Remus’ reply:

I asked for a refund that might force them to deliver right away. They said to go online. Told Rach to meet their toon in the game.

Text message from Rachel:

EGF, is this an early April Fool’s Day joke? Getting P.O.’d here. Gold is a no show.

Text message from Remus:

Now on live chat with VC f*cking pit.

My reply:

Dude, what did they say?

Text message from Remus:

They need more effing time. Rach mad.

OH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!

My reply:

REFUND!!!

Text message from Remus:

VCPit offering 5% bonus if we don’t refund. They said give them one hour. Then Rach can get her gold.

Text message from Rachel after one hour:

EGF, I still think you’re sweet but I don’t want the gold anymore. I waited again for nothing. Gotta go, have a date with Emily.XOXO

Deflated, I picked up the phone and called Remus.

"Tell VCPit to give back the money and to chew on their own goddamn meatballs," I growled.

"Not very original but I welcome the refund suggestion," he said. "Oh that was pretty sick of VCPit to tell us to go online when all realms were still down. Must be a Chinese version of an April Fool’s stunt."

Right. But I’m NOT amused.

How do you say "go stick a Chinese firecracker up your ass?" in Chinese?

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